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Record, upload and share interactive video presentations.  Access a variety of visual aids such as PowerPoint slides, drawing board, whiteboard and your video.  Students can see you as well as your presentation.

Lendmeyourliteracy.org is a unique online resource base for teachers and students of Literacy.A one stop website for examples of good pieces of literacy work written by children and not just models written in a text book.Teachers can use these pieces of work for moderation purposes and an aid to good teaching, inspiring children to believe…"If they can do it, I can too!"

David Puttnam spoke in Dublin tonight - he had some interesting ideas including ORACY - A web definition explains "oracy" as…used to describe a person's ability to efficiently communicate with others via the spoken word as well as to fully understand oral communication. Wilkinson…created the word to emphasize the need for school children to be able to fully use oral skills as an essential basis for learning and social integration. It is an analogy for the words numeracy and literacy, and aids in bringing the focus of oral skill on par with reading and writing in the classroom.

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I think that in the context of teaching and learning, how we introduce the handling of online-devices in schools needs further thought. Rather than the device being omnipresent, teacher and student must see it as an aid to pedagogy rather than replacing the learning interaction between people.

Useful aide to support teachers and/or pupils embarking on blogging

Impressive teaching; Kajitani fully engages students by teaching them math concepts by showing their applicability and using music to aid memory.

Pa. college translate admissions Web pages into Spanish to aid Latino parents. The reader comments on the story are interesting.

An unfolding disaster of incredible proportions. Links to weather and climate, development, aid, infrastructure

Plenty of grade specific curriculum and resources to aid in teaching the new Math CCSS.  So many links to explore from states across our country.... Make time to explore!!  And if you're a nerd like me, you'll have a blast looking through this wealth of knowledge and resources!

This site offers a growing bank of imaginative, highly visual teaching-aids developed for use with interactive whiteboards. The resources are designed to be used as rich sources of visually stimulating material, making use of both animations and drag and drop interactivity. One example: Try Biology. There are some drag and drop labeling activities for the IWB.

"We are social creatures. In most respects humans are an unremarkable species without many amazing abilities, such as great strength, big teeth or flying. But we have each other, and as a result we have prospered. The same is true in the classroom. We can do great things went we work together, but that is only true went we can work independly first. Independent learning doesn't necessararily mean that you must hide away in your hermitage without the aid of the outside world, but instead means that you decide your own path and what resources you need to travel sucessfully along it."

"De-escalation strategies can help prevent students' emotional outbursts, and aid them and their peers in finding calm after one."

"An interesting 3D design platform with challenges to aid learning and a variety of options. Free version has limited shapes library."

"Development of technology within the classroom can aide the identification of contextual factors that may or may not contribute to effective use of technology in enhancing quality learning experiences. Factors such as organisational culture, teacher self-efficacy and their confidence and experience in utilising technology, resources and learner engagement all have to be considered to allow for an integrated approach."